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The Covenant of Grace
The covenant of grace discovering the great work of a sinners reconciliation to God / by John Cotton ... ; whereunto are added Certain queries tending to accommodation [sic] between the Presbyterian and Congregational churches ; also a discussion of the civill magistrates power in matters of religion ; by the same author.The covenant of grace discovering the great work of a sinners reconciliation to God / by John Cotton ... ; whereunto are added Certain queries tending to accommodadation [sic] between the Presbyterian and Congregationall churches ; also a discussion of the civill magistrates power in matters of religion ; by the same author.
London: printed by M.S. for Francis Eglesfield and John Allen, 1655
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1 Then such may as well say, those Rulers did shadow out Christ in the exercise of their power in matters of the second Table, and therefore are not therein imitable, which none will affirm. Solomon typed out Christ in subduing of enemies, relieving the oppressed, procuring the peace of the state, Psal. 72. Must not Princes therefore do the like?
1 Then such may as well say, those Rulers did shaddow out Christ in the exercise of their power in matters of the second Table, and therefore are not therein imitable, which none will affirme. Solomon typed out Christ in subduing of enemies, relieving the opressed, procuring the peace of the state, Psal. 72. Must not Princes therefore doe the like?
2 Those that make that Objection, they use to put it thus, The Kings of Israel were such Types; but such an one was not Abraham, nor Job, nor Nehemiah, who by a Coercive Law enjoined the sanctifying of the Sabbath, Neh. 13. nor the King of Nineveh, nor was that wicked King of Israel, Ahab, a type of Christ, which should have put that blaspheming Benhadad to death [whence that sharp reproof of him for not doing ⟨p. 24⟩it, 1 Kings 20. To say nothing of Darius & Nebuchadnezzars Decrees this way, which are recorded in way of commendation thereof, Ezra 6. and Dan. 3.29.
2 Those that make that Objection, they use to put it thus, The Kings of Israel were such Types; but such an one was not Abraham, nor Job, nor Nehemiah, who by a Coercive Law injoined the sanctifying of the Sabbath,